i noticed that for the WiiU nintendo has released source code for what seems to be the opensource portions of their menu and os....
i was wondering if anyone has aver thought about taking the IOS / Menu system from either the wii or wiiU and get it up and running under a virtualmachine in virtualbox or something? it would be interesting if this was a possibility. it would also make experimental hacks on the Wii / WiiU easier since there would be no risk of bricking the hardware. you would just simply delet the virtualmachine and re-install the backup VM...
has anyone ever tried this? did it work?
- Betzelel

12-28-2012, 10:23 AM

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Originally Posted by betzelel

hi ya'll, i had an interesting thought....

i noticed that for the WiiU nintendo has released source code for what seems to be the opensource portions of their menu and os....
i was wondering if anyone has aver thought about taking the IOS / Menu system from either the wii or wiiU and get it up and running under a virtualmachine in virtualbox or something? it would be interesting if this was a possibility. it would also make experimental hacks on the Wii / WiiU easier since there would be no risk of bricking the hardware. you would just simply delet the virtualmachine and re-install the backup VM...
has anyone ever tried this? did it work?
- Betzelel

I have no answer to your question, but can I get a link to said source code?

maybe if one could use the tools mentioned in the last web article to de-compile the NAND, and then create a virtualmachine and use something like grub as a boot loader for it... maybe that might be a start. one could use Ubuntu to boot the live cd in the VM and create a bootable dos partion in the VM, with fat32 so that way the files can read themselves.... just some ideas.
- Betzelel